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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.6 has been released on March 9, 2017. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.4 has been released on October 4, 2016. New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015. PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship Schrödinger is now accepting applications for the PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program! Details on http://pymol.org/fellowship Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.6 have all been released on May 4, 2015. New Plugin PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL. New Plugin Bondpack is a collection of PyMOL plugins for easy visualization of atomic bonds. New Plugin MOLE 2.0 is a new plugin for rapid analysis of biomacromolecular channels in PyMOL. 3D using Geforce PyMOL can now be visualized in 3D using Nvidia GeForce video cards (series 400+) with 120Hz monitors and Nvidia 3D Vision, this was previously only possible with Quadro video cards. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Bounding Box <source lang="python"> import math from pymol import querying from pymol.cgo import * from pymol import cmd NOTE!! : These packages (numarray, Scientific) must be present in pymol's '$PYMOLDIR/py23/lib/python2.3/site-packages/' directory!! OR..if you are using Mac PyMOL 0.99beta19 or later then the system installs will be used from numarray import * from numarray.ma import average from numarray import linear_algebra as la from Scientific.Geometry import Vector, Tensor, Transformation def boundingBox(selectionName, colourRGB=[1,1,1]): """ The main function to call : run "box.py" boundingBox("peptide") Should make a box around "peptide" (assuming it exists!). For a different colour use: boundingBox("peptide", colourRGB=[1, 0, 1]) Or whatever. The box should be a cgo called 'peptide-box' (for this example). """ model = querying.get_model(selectionName) coords = model.get_coord_list() #find the least square plane ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.